Tropical Atlantic deglacial climate change: Readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


CONTRIBUTOR: Konrad Hughen, University of Colorado.
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  96-008
NAME OF DATA SET: Tropical Atlantic deglacial climate change.
LAST UPDATE: 3/96 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Tropical Atlantic.
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-14KYBP.
LIST OF FILES: Readme, grouped greyscale data files greydata.txt (tab-delimited),
and greydata.csv (comma-delimited), plus individual core greyscale files 
56.csv, 58.csv, 39.csv, 57.csv, 58tw.csv.
Please also see updated age model files under hughen1998 on this server.

DESCRIPTION: 
Sediments in the tropical Atlantic Ocean record rapid changes in biological
productivity that are synchronous with the high-latitude climate events,
and seem to have been caused by changes in the strength of trade winds.
As trade-wind strength is influenced by ocean circulation, through its effect
on sea-surface temperature, these results provide support for the idea that
North Atlantic circulation changes are responsible for the rapid climate shifts.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Hughen, K.A., J T Overpeck, L C Peterson & S Trumbore, 1996,
Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation.
Nature, Vol. 380, No. 6569, pp 51-54, 7 March 1996

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Hughen, K., 1996, Tropical Atlantic Deglacial Climate Change Data.  IGBP PAGES/World Data
Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 96-008.  NOAA/NGDC
Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.